# Rossana Reguillo

Rossana Reguillo is a Mexican academic known for researching social norms, human emotions and the relationship between communication, culture, and politics in Latin America and how it is affected by drug trafficking. She currently holds a professor position at ITESO University and the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education. Additionally, she has served as a visiting professor at New York University and a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
She is known to combines analysis with advocacy of social phenomena by advocating for social change. For instance, her studies on the 1992 drainage explosions in Guadalajara and the involvement of youth in the Mara Salvatrucha were conducted with a sense of activism and emotions rather than a purely rational and scientific outlook.

## Personal life

Rossana Reguillo was born on 28 September 1955, in Guadalajara, Mexico. Rossana Reguillo is married to Jabez, a Mexican cartoonist.

## Work

Reguillo holds a doctorate in social sciences which has been her main field of study ever since.
Reguillo is known for her research on subjects such as communication, social anthropology, and cultural studies.
She has held numerous visiting positions and chairs at different universities:
* Professor in the Studies of Social Communication Department at the University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico (1995–2001).
* Visiting Professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, Puerto Rico (1997, 2000).
* Tinker Visiting Professor at Stanford University, Center of Latin American Studies, California (2001).
* UNESCO Chair in Communication at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (2004)
* UNESCO Chair in Communication at the Pontifical Xavierian University, Bogota, Colombia (2004)
Since 1981, Reguillo has been a professor in the Sociocultural Studies Department at ITESO University and the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education. She has also served as the coordinator of its formal research program in sociocultural studies since 2001. Reguillo is a permanent member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and she holds a level III rank in the National Researchers System of the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico.
Reguillo has received recognition for her work, including the 1995 Best Research in Social Anthropology Fray Bernardino de Sahagun Award from the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico, the 1996 Ibero-American Award for Municipal and Regional Investigation from the Ibero-American Capital Cities Union in Spain, and the 2010 Advertising and Women Award for Communication Trajectory from the Municipal Institute of Women and the National Council for the Prevention of Discrimination. She has also been appointed as an advisory member for Latin America for the Social Science Research Council in the USA.
Reguillo has taught courses and seminars at universities in Anglo and Latin America, as well as in Spain, including the University of Colima (Mexico), Autonomous University of Queretaro (Mexico), Pontifical Bolivarian University (Colombia), University of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico), Central American University (El Salvador), University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), ORT University of Montevideo (Uruguay), National University of Colombia (Colombia), Simón Bolívar Andean University (Bolivia), and many others.